Ross Greer: “If MPs won’t improve transparency across the UK, MSPs can at least do that here in Scotland.”

Delaying the roll out to the rest of the country by up to five years is completely unacceptable though.

Scotland needs investment in homes, bus and rail services, schools and hospitals.

I hope that the First Minister will ignore these corporate lobbying efforts, hit pause on all applications immediately and protect the interests of people and planet.

If they’re allowed to go ahead, hyperscale data centres will be another case of multinational companies extracting huge profits from Scotland whilst our economy sees next to no benefit and our environment suffers.